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Write about something that you have not talked about in the Odyssey. In the book, The Odyssey, I thought it was very strange how the story gave so much detail of how Odysseus killed the suitors. I believe that this made Odysseus look very gruesome and not at all king like. In my opinion I don't believe that a king should act like how he did.  Not to mention the killing of the women was also very gruesome.  This might have been because it was so long ago (Not that it actually happened) and that we aren’t really supposed to put logic into our thoughts when reading this book.  I would have liked to see what happened to Odysseus if the fathers of the suitors didn’t have a spell of forgetness casted over them.

In Book 19, why do you think Odysseus is so harsh on Eurycleia after she recognized him? Eurycleia is Odysseus's old maid or caregiver. She knew him from his the beginning of his life. In book 19 I too had the question of why Odysseus was so harsh on her.  I believed that he was harsh on her because Penelope was in the room when the maid was washing Odysseus.  Odysseus didn’t want Penelope to figure out that he was himself rather than a swineherd. I don’t understand why he took her by the throat when she has been nothing but kind to him. Odysseus didn’t know that Penelope was shielded from knowing who he was by the gods, which might have been the cause of his abruption towards Eurycleia.